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Velidra sent me the link to the above video of a Destruction Warlock tearing apart battlegrounds with his bare hands. The guy takes on 3 Rogues at once and walks away the sole survivor. If I walk away from an encounter with a single Rogue, I usually count myself lucky. Three of them at once? Game over, man. Game over.
But not for Adouken.
I enjoy PvP videos. They usually make me feel bad about my own UI (how do they do that with so few addons?) but they make me feel great about the potential of my class, and I try to learn from them as best I can.
Videos naturally show a skewed version of a player's skill, but that's doesn't mean that players who show off their skills in them are somehow faking it. They might not be that good all the time, but damn if they weren't that good at some point, when the cameras were rolling. Odds are pretty high that they are that good, and that they operate at a high level of play all the time.
I don't play anywhere near as well as you see Adouken play in that video – far from it. Watch that first segment and realize that he's casting Nether Ward inbetween the time a spell is cast at him and the time it reaches him. You notice how it looks like he reflects Death Coils back at their caster? He's casting his own Death Coil while his opponent's spell is in the air. That's awesome.
There is an objective difference in skill between Adouken's player and me. While it may not be easy, surely, we can measure it somehow, right?
That's where PvP ratings are supposed to come in and help us know the great from the good, the poor from the mediocre. They way they work is simple, at least in concept.
- There are two numbers used in the rating system: Matchmaking Rating (also called MMR) and your PvP Rating. You have different values for each bracket.
- Your Matchmaking Rating changes with every win and loss, and is used by the system to try to find a level of skill where you'll win about 50% of the time. You can think of the MMR as measuring your aptitude, your potential rating.
- Your PvP Rating is based upon your performance over time, changes slowly, and is what PvP achievements, gear rewards, and titles are based upon. PvP Rating, in theory, measures your performance over time.
The goal of the PvP rating system is to match you up with people of equal ability, not to allow you to win all the time.
That's kinda weird, isn't it? From a sport perspective, it would be really strange to have a system that wasn't based on win/loss records (performance). But you also have different leagues and ways of stratifying talent that don't exist in computer games – local, regional, and national competitions, playoffs, major, minor, and little leagues. So instead, the goal is to put a number on you and say, this is an arbitrary level you're performing at.
All other things being equal, you should win about 50% of your matches against teams and people of similar PvP rank.
But that's not how it works.
So a funny thing happened in the 4.2 Patch notes.
- The individual Matchmaking Rating column has been removed from the Arena scoreboard.
- The individual Matchmaking Rating column has been removed from the Rated Battleground scoreboard and replaced with a team Matchmaking Rating.
This is kind of curious, isn't it? What's going on here?
I've said several times that Blizzard is trying to encourage people to get into Rated Battlegrounds in patch 4.2, and that many of the changes are with this in mind. You might think that a change like this is just to make it so that people who join rBGs don't see how outmatched they are and throwing the match immediately.
While this makes a limited amount of sense, it's not what's going on. Yes, this is to try to make Rated Battlegrounds more fair, and therefore more attractive. But hiding the personal MMR is aimed at stopping a series of exploits people are using to get titles in both Arena and Rated Battlegrounds, exploits which are running rampant right now. The most common exploit involves using alts to boost the main characters's MMR, then winning enough games at the various high levels to get the desired titles.
If you've been comfortably playing in a lower Arena bracket, you may have noticed that the last 2 weeks have been rather… more painful than before.
You're not imagining things.
[Player]: How about a joke before you go?
[GM]: Your Arena rating.
[Player]: /facepalm
Consider the following facts about how MMR works.
- Your team MMR (different from your rating, mind you) is equal to the average individual MMR of all the players on the team.
- In the event of a win, individual MMR should go up, thereby raising the team MMR. Losses reduce MMR, but not as much as wins do.
- Players on new teams start out with 1500 MMR.
Let's look at how this works out.
You start the season out with your two friends and start playing 3v3 on your mains. You win some, you lose some, but your individual MMR rises and falls together. If your MMR hits 1800, your teammates are also at 1800. Your MMR, and eventually your PvP rating, accurately reflect your team's performance to date. Everything is rosy.
Now let's say one of you has an alt you want to bring in. Maybe it's because it's a better comp, maybe it's just time for a change. Now you've got two people at 1800 MMR and one person at 1500 MMR, so your team has a MMR of 1700. You're facing teams which are a little worse than you were doing before, but maybe the alt is undergeared, so it balances out.
What's interesting is that it might balance out to fair matches in the 1700-1800 bracket, your individual MMRs are now going to be out of sync. The alt will always have a lower MMR than the other two main characters, and can never catch up.
Now let's take a step back and change the conditions a little bit. You have a 3v3 team, starts fresh at 1500 and goes to 1800. Two of you drop your mains and swap to alts. Your team's MMR is now 1600. You're facing easier teams than you did at the 1800 bracket, so you win, even though the alts might be a little undergeared. They gain +200 MMR, you gain +200 MMR, you're now at 2000 MMR, they're at 1700 MMR – and your team is back at 1800 MMR.
With me so far? You're still playing at 1800 MMR teams, but your personal MMR is 2000, your team's alts are at 1700.
Now, you swap to to one of your alts, and one of your teammates swaps to their mains. 1500 alt, 1700 alt, and 1800 main are now on a 1666 team. You play until your teammate's main is at 2000. (You'd be at 1700, the second alt would be at 1900.)
You see where this is going, right?
By cycling through alts, teams are able to artificially boost the individual MMR of their main characters.
Now let's take this a step further. The team cycles through once or twice, everyone's mains are sitting around 2000 MMR. The alts are all around 1800, which is really where people's skills are at.
So the team hops on their alts and loses every single match. Their MMR tanks. They go from an 1800 MMR team to a 500 MMR team in a night. Those characters have terrible MMR now, which is exactly what they want.
Because now, you have a crop of alts at 500 MMR to swap into a team with a 2000 MMR main. The team's matchmaking rating is 1000, so they're going to be facing significantly easier opponents. But they're capable of playing at 1800 MMR, so they dominate. The main's MMR shoots up to 3000+ while the alts are climbing back up to 1800.
And then once everyone's mains have an MMR of 4000+, they all rejoin the team and play enough matches to bring their team rating – and therefore their PvP rating, which gives the Gladiator titles – up to the desired level. Yes, their MMR will fall from the heights it reached, but the PvP Rating will rise to meet it somewhere in the middle.
When that team comes and stomps your 1000-rated group you and your friends put together to screw around on with perfect CC chains, huge burst damage and flawless target switching… they should never have been playing you in the first place.
You know why MMR boosting is an even bigger problem in Rated Battlegrounds? It's not because they're BGs, and it's not because I am trying to pick a fight with rBGs this week.
No, it's because:
- There are 10 people on your team, and
- Rewards are based on your individual MMR, not your team MMR.
Nice, huh?
Swapping alts (or even players who don't care) in and out of BGs can be done like in Arenas, but it's a little easier to boost MMR due to the number of low rated alts you can bring to the team. If you have 2 players at 1800 and 8 players at 1000, your team will be at 1160 MMR and (hopefully) get matched accordingly.
The coordination required to alt swap and lose MMRs is harder to do with 10 people than with 3. There's a lot more time involved with Rated Battlegrounds, and the effort put forth by a low-rated character is often the same (or more) than a high-rated one, but the high rated one will get rewarded disproportionately to their efforts. While there is some alt-swapping going on, it's not as easy as some other methods of boosting your MMR.
No, the best thing to do is to work with a strong group until you're all up to a decent level – say 1800-2000 – and then PuG like crazy. Get into the worst groups you can find who still have a chance of winning, and play with them. This has the same effect as the alt-swapping MMR boost – when you win, you win big, when you lose, you don't lose that much – with none of the headaches of having to swap alts yourself. You can go from PuG to PuG, increasing your MMR with each win. You may not win as consistently as you do with your set group, but you will get a great rating, which in turn gives you access to the PvP titles. You don't even have to win any matches at your new MMR to get the titles, because nothing is based on your team's MMR or rating – just your individual rating.
Remember back when you thought people's rating really measured their skill?
At some point above, you probably wondered how people can preserve their ratings while losing.
Well, if you leave a match before it finishes, it doesn't count. This is how win-trading works – people queue in off-hours, trying to get specific teams to match up against, and leave the match if it's not them. When people leave the match as soon as things start going a little wrong? They're leaving to preserve their MMR, which gets modified at the end of the match.
You didn't think people were /afking because they were scared of you, right? 🙂
Another reason why people /afk out of an Arena (or Rated Battlegrounds, though I think this is less common) match is because they're trying to trade wins with another team.
This often happens late at night, when there aren't a lot of teams playing in the different brackets, and it's been a problem since Arenas started, but obviously if you can find a team who will throw the match for you, it's a great way to get your PvP Rating to match your possibly inflated MMR.
I don't have a lot to say about win trading. Don't think it doesn't happen, because it does.
Given that there are two different types of MMR inflation going on in both types of Rated PvP, you can start to see why Blizzard is trying to hide that value. It's not going to prevent the problem from happening, especially not in Rated Battlegrounds, but it can reduce the precision with which people are doing it now. There will be more guesswork when exploiting, both in boosting and tanking individual MMRs.
There's a concept in security circles called "Security through Obscurity," which is a way of describing any security system that relies upon something being hidden for it to be secure. It's usually treated as a bad thing, because once something is found that relies on it, it's completely insecure. In cryptography, if your sophisticated code algorithm uses a single seed to generate codes, once the seed is known your code is useless. In piracy, if you bury your gold but don't put a lock on it, anyone who finds the gold can take it.
In other words, security through obscurity is generally not very secure.
There's a temptation to say that hiding the MMRs is just that – not making the system any less susceptible to exploitation, just hiding the problem. People can still do the things they're doing now. You are going to face teams who are boosting themselves, who have great gear and skilled players but are playing with an MMR well below their real skill, and you won't be able to tell anymore.
But, removing the data points does make it more difficult on the exploiters. Not a lot – not like a complete revamp of the MMR system would – but a bit. It's a relatively simple change in terms of development time which will have some impact. That's why it's happening now.
I don't really like this change, but I see that Blizzard has to do something.
Will teams still be able to boost their MMR into the stratosphere? You bet. As far as I can see, as long as the three conditions I laid out about the MMR system hold true, boosting is possible. You can't have flexible teams and not have this kind of potential abuse. Will it be harder for other players to find out who is boosting? Yes, it will.
It's not great. But it's a start.
Man is the measure of all things.
The interesting thing about the PvP Rating system, at least the Platonic ideal of the PvP rating system, is that it provides a way to compare people with very different character types. No matter what you play, or what your team is like, it should provide a relative measure against other players. The values are arbitrary and entirely dependent upon the actions of other players, as well as your own.
I think about other rating systems that assign a numeric value to your ability – college aptitude tests like the SAT/ACT, IQ tests, even professional placement exams – and they all measure ability based upon fixed criteria. Here is a test, there are right and wrong answers, how did you do? (Please note, I am an old fart, and I still think of the SAT as having all multiple-choice questions, none of this fancy writing stuff.)
Both types of test assign numeric values, which of course makes them more scientific.
But more than that, both purport to measure aptitude, but one is easy to game for your advantage, while the other is not. Why is that?
Take a look at the exploits again. Each one of them involves using other people. The system isn't the problem, the people are. The system relies upon measuring you and your teammates, and your performance against other teams, which provides two places where it can be exploited.
Your opponents can really only modify your rating through throwing a match and win-trading, which is one kind of problem. You and your teammates can modify it through careful manipulation, boosting some characters, tanking the ratings of others, and preserving gains through /afking.
If these ratings were static and based upon some kind of objective performance, this kind of exploitation would not be possible. You can't cheat an aptitude test by trying to throw off the bell curve and flooding the test pool with people who are going to score 0. You can't get a 1600 on the SATs by being better than everyone else in your testing pool – you have to get every question right.
There are objective measurements of player skill, even in an environment soaked in relativity like PvP. Go back to the video at the top of the page. The player's reaction time is faster than many others. They choose the right spells and abilities to succeed. They position themselves well, they use their abilities in the correct order. There is a measurable difference between that kind of play and my own, and that means we could construct a static test to measure it.
But static tests are hard. They have to be randomized, administered sparingly, maintained and updated. I don't know how it would capture performance in the field fairly. I have only the vaguest ideas how a static PvP test would work. Perhaps like kata in martial arts, where mastery of a ritualized set of moves – perhaps a scripted PvP encounter for each class – is required to move to the next level?
That doesn't feel much like PvP to me. PvP requires other players, living, breathing, thinking teammates and opponents.
And yet, as soon as we bring other people into our measure, we open the door for manipulating that rating.
PvP Rating is not equal to skill. As much as we would like to have a system that really represents skill, the PvP Rating system is not it.
The more I look at how the PvP Rating system is being manipulated, the less I respect it. There are a lot of highly skilled players with high ratings, where ability and performance are in sync. But there are plenty of other teams that are taking shortcuts, who are going for the quickest way to their desired goal. They'll stomp through the lower brackets while boosting a friend's toon. The only incentives that aren't about gaining the coveted rating are designed to get people into Rated Battlegrounds – everything else is about getting your numbers up.
Players who deliberately game the rating system sadly affect other players. A 2500 player playing in the 1250 range artificially depresses the ratings of people who would naturally be in the lower brackets. The upper brackets, in turn, get filled with people who have artificially inflated their ratings, giving the people who actually perform at that level easy opponents, inflating their ratings in turn.
The more players who game the system, the more imbalanced the brackets get.
And none of this is a reason to not play Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds.
- Arenas remains the best place to learn how to win fights in PvP, period. (The only other activity that even comes close is dueling, which is really 1:1 Arena.) Yes, it's a death match. Yes, there are strict limits about what you can and can't use. Yes, you're going to have unbalanced matches. Try to win them anyway. Learn from your losses.
- Rated Battlegrounds delivered on their promise – they let you play BGs with the team composition you want against really good opponents. You have to win the individual fights, you have to execute a strategy, you have to do it against an organized opponent. Yes, you're going to have unbalanced matches. So what? Get stronger.
As long as PvP Ratings are a relative measure, players will work together to game the system and artificially inflate their ratings. The exploits I've discussed are just some of the ways that players are trying to get around the system.
Is this cheating? Yep, you better believe it. Creative use of game mechanics, my foot.
But while it unbalances PvP, it's not a reason to abandon Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds.
Skill is not equal to rating. Skill can't be gamed, it can only be acquired through work and talent.
Screw your PvP Rating. Focus on improving your skill instead.
If you do that, all the exploits in the world won't matter one bit.


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Romney Decries Military Cuts; Obama Talking Jobs
President Barack Obama pledged to create many more jobs and "make the middle class secure again" in a campaign-closing appeal on Thursday—more than five weeks before Election Day—to voters already casting ballots in large numbers.
Republican Mitt Romney, focusing on threats beyond American shores, accused the commander in chief of backing dangerous cuts in defense spending.
"The idea of cutting our military is unthinkable and devastating. And when I become president we will not," declared the challenger, struggling to reverse a slide in opinion polls.
Romney and Obama campaigned a few hundred miles apart in Virginia, 40 days before their long race ends. They'll be in much closer quarters next Wednesday in Denver—for the first of three presidential debates on the campaign calendar and perhaps the challenger's best remaining chance to change the trajectory of the campaign.
In a race where the economy is the dominant issue, there was a fresh sign of national weakness as the Commerce Department lowered its earlier estimate of tepid growth last spring. Romney and his allies seized on the news as evidence that Obama's policies aren't working.
There was good news for the president in the form of a survey by The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation suggesting he has gained ground among older voters after a month-long ad war over Republican plans for Medicare.
The pace also was quickening in the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.
Prominent Republican conservatives pledged financial and political support for Rep. Todd Akin in Missouri. That complicated Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill's bid for re-election. But it also left Romney, running mate Paul Ryan and the rest of the GOP hierarchy in an awkward position after they tried unsuccessfully to push Akin off the ballot in the wake of his controversial comments about rape.
Farther west, in Arizona, Republican Rep. Jeff Flake unleashed an ad calling Democratic rival Richard Carmona "Barack Obama's rubberstamp." It was not meant as a compliment in a state seemingly headed Romney's way, a response for sure to Democratic claims that the Senate contest was unexpectedly close.
In the presidential race, early voting has already begun in Virginia as well as South Dakota, Idaho and Vermont. It began during the day in Wyoming as well as in Iowa, like Virginia one of the most highly contested states. Early voters had formed a line a half block long in Des Moines before the elections office opened at 8 a.m.
Campaigning in Virginia Beach, Obama said, "It's time for a new economic patriotism, an economic patriotism rooted in the belief that growing our economy begins with a strong and thriving middle class." It was a line straight from the two-minute television commercial his campaign released overnight.
He said that if re-elected he would back policies to create a million new manufacturing jobs, help businesses double exports and give tax breaks to companies that "invest in America, not ship jobs overseas." He pledged to cut oil imports in half while doubling the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks, make sure there are 100,000 new teachers trained in math and science, cut the growth of college tuition in half and expand student aid "so more Americans can afford it."
He also touted a "balanced plan to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion," but he included $1 trillion in reductions that already have taken place, and he took credit for saving half of the funds budgeted for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that no longer are needed.
Obama also said he would "ask the wealthy to pay a little more," a reference to the tax increase he favors on incomes over $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for couples. It is perhaps his most fundamental disagreement on policy with Romney, who wants to extend expiring tax cuts at all levels, including the highest.
Obama's campaign put out a second, scathing commercial during the day based on Romney's recorded comments from last May that 47 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes and feel they are victims entitled to government benefits. Romney added that as a candidate his job is not to worry about them.
In the ad, Romney's by-now well-known comments are heard as images scroll by of a white woman with two children in a rural setting, a black woman wearing workplace safety goggles, two older white men wearing Veterans of Foreign Wars hats; a Latino, and finally a white woman with safety goggles—each of them meant to portray millions whom Romney described dismissively in the appearance before donors four months ago.
Romney countered with two new ads of his own, including one that appeared designed to minimize political fallout from the videotape.
"President Obama and I both care about poor and middle-class families," he says in a direct appeal to voters. "The difference is my policies will make things better for them. We shouldn't measure compassion by how many people are on welfare. We should measure compassion by how many people are able to get off welfare and get a good-paying job."
The second ad pointed to comments Obama made four years ago when he said he would support proposals to raise the cost of business for facilities than run on coal. "So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them," the then-presidential candidate is seen saying.
The narrator adds: "Obama wages war on coal while we lose jobs to China, which is using more coal every day. Now your job is in danger."
Romney campaigned at an American Legion hall in Springfield, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C., accusing Obama of supporting cuts in the defense budget that would be detrimental to the nation's military readiness.
"The world is not a safe place. It remains dangerous," he said, referring to North Korea, Syria, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. "The idea of cutting our military commitment by a trillion dollars over this decade is unthinkable and devastating."
Appealing for support from his audience, he said, "You realize we have fewer ships in the Navy than any time since 1917. ... Our Air Force is older and smaller than any time since 1947, when it was formed. This is unacceptable. And the idea of shrinking our active duty personnel by 100,000 or 200,000—I want to add 100,000 to active duty personnel."
To have a strong military, he said, it's imperative to have a strong economy, yet he added that growth in China and Russia is stronger than in the United States. He predicted that under Obama, there would be no improvement.
"So two -- two very different paths. One is the path the president's proposed, which is the status quo. His is the path of -- well, he calls it 'forward.' I call it 'forewarned.' All right? All right?
The $1 trillion Romney mentioned in defense cuts had the support of Republicans and Democrats alike in Congress, although he says GOP lawmakers made a mistake in voting for the reductions and several now want to prevent them from taking effect.

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Automatic emulation in Ubuntu
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This is a tutorial for getting an emulation environment on an Ubuntu system. For other systems see the Installation guide
You have to know that there is a great tool to get it running on a linux system, namely the MokoMakefile. This is a sort of wrapper round several instructions, so it is easy to set up and maintain a development environment. If you build the whole MokoMakefile, you will need approximately 12GB, a swap+ram memory of about 1GB and minimum 5 hours time. But we will only build it for Qemu (the emulator that I will use) and that needs (on my system) only 890mb and a 15 min of your time.
To get it running, you will have to tweak your ubuntu a little bit (This will not damage other programs, everything will work as before).
- Configure your sources (System -> Administration -> Software Sources) to include:
- Canonical-supported Open Source software (main)
- Community-maintained Open Source software (universe)
- Open your terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal).
- Enter following command and select NO when it asks to install dash as /bin/sh (You will have to enter your password)
sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
- Install the needed programs on Hardy Heron 8.04 (You will have to enter your password):
sudo apt-get install monotone git-core git-svn git-email \ git-cvs git-arch gitk python-dev ccache m4 sed bison make cvs gawk \ libc6-dev g++ subversion sharutils docbook openjade quilt libmpfr-dev \ libpcre3-dev texinfo texi2html libboost-date-time-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \ libboost-regex-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-dev zlib1g-dev build-essential \ dh-make debhelper devscripts gcc-3.4 lynx netpbm libsdl1.2-dev dosfstools \ help2man python-psyco lynx
- For older versions (git-svn git-email git-cvs git-arch gitk are replaced by cogito)
sudo apt-get install monotone git-core cogito python-dev ccache m4 sed bison \ make cvs gawk libc6-dev g++ subversion sharutils docbook openjade quilt \ libmpfr-dev libpcre3-dev texinfo texi2html libboost-date-time-dev \ libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-dev \ zlib1g-dev build-essential dh-make debhelper devscripts gcc-3.4 netpbm \ libsdl1.2-dev dosfstools help2man python-psyco lynx
Voila your system is ready to get the install Openmoko.
Now we will install Openmoko in a directory by downloading the MokoMakefile in it and build it.
- Create a directory and go into the directory:
mkdir openmoko cd openmoko
- Get the MokoMakefile (Currently down due to fires in California. Use the link below instead):
wget http://www.rwhitby.net/files/openmoko/Makefile
If that doesn't work, try
wget http://svn.projects.openmoko.org/svnroot/mokomakefile/trunk/Makefile
- Make the MokoMakefile and tell it, you want to install it for qemu:
make qemu
This will download the necessary files of the latest release and build them following the MokoMakefile. After that it will start into the emulator for the first time. Voila you have now successfully installed openmoko onto your ubuntu system.
You can create a menu item for starting Openmoko by doing the following:
- Open the terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal)
- Go to the openmoko directory:
cd ~/openmoko
- open the file moko.sh with gedit:
gedit moko.sh
- insert the following text into the file:
#!/bin/bash cd ~/openmoko make run-qemu
- Press "save" and close gedit
- then run the following commands:
chmod +x moko.sh alacarte
- and add a menu item with these values:
- Name: Openmoko
- Command: ~/openmoko/moko.sh
- If you want to you can add an appropriate icon by clicking on the image on the top left. You can download some useful images here:
Help with running Openmoko in Qemu
If you have created a menu item you can start Openmoko through the applications menu of Ubuntu. If you have not, you can start it by:
- Open your terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal).
- Go to the directory:
cd openmoko
- starting with the MokoMakefile
make run-qemu
The first screen of Openmoko will show a nice picture of the Openmoko logo which will be followed almost immediately by the BOOT MENU, this is done by the bootloader.
In the BOOT MENU you can choose different options. To select an option you have to press enter (=aux) and to execute it, hit space (=power). The default selection will boot Openmoko. Thus if the BOOT MENU shows, you just have to hit the space bar and the phone software will load.
While booting Openmoko the progress will be shown in text mode. Depending on your computer's performance it might take a while (some minutes even) to complete the boot. When complete you will see the graphical interface as will be shown on the phone itself (but slightly larger due to the larger pixelsize of your screen).
A few pointers on using Openmoko:
- You can select the icon that looks like "+" for a list of applications you can run.
- You can select the icon that looks like "three gears" for a list of applications that are running now. Here you can also terminate unwanted applications when you are unable to do so from within the application itself.
- You can select the icon that looks like a "house" to get back to the first home screen.
- The statusbar at the top is always shown and by clicking on the top-left corner you can switch to another application that is already running. The "Home" application is always running and clicking on it will bring you back to the home screen.
See Qemu for more advanced information on running Openmoko in Qemu.
Installing ipk packages
First you need a xxx.ipk package, see toolchain on how to compile an application for the ARM CPU and create the package.
Note that if at this point you have the Openmoko Qemu running, it is probably wise to terminate it first. Then you can install the xxx.ipk package for access by the Qemu emulator with:
cd openmoko mkdir -p build/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/a cp xxx.ipk build/tmp/deploy/glibc/ipk/a/xxx_a.ipk make qemu-copy-package-xxx
Note: for some reason qemu-copy-package-xxx looks for above source file. Maybe this part can be improved, or a different command can overcome the problem of creating this directory.
When above make command was succesful the next time you start Openmoko Qemu, you still need to make the installed application available in the application list. For this you can select from within Openmoko the terminal application (Select icon that looks like "+" for the list of available applicaitons, select "Applications" and select the "Terminal"). In this terminal double-click, so you can type in the commands:
opkg install /media/mmcblk0/xxx_a.ipk exit
After the "exit" command you should return to the Task list, in which the newly added application should be listed under a name which was choosen when building the ipk package.
Updating Openmoko
- Open your terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal).
- Go to the directory:
cd openmoko
- Update with the MokoMakefile
make qemu
If you have any problems, just add it here
After issuing the command 'make qemu' in Gutsy, the installation eventually borks with
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/openmoko/build/qemu/arm-softmmu' make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/openmoko/build/qemu' [ -e images/openmoko ] || mkdir -p images/openmoko ln -sf `pwd`/openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/openmoko/env images/openmoko/env ( cd images && ../openmoko/trunk/src/host/qemu-neo1973/openmoko/download.sh ) Retrieving available builds list... Kernel is... not found make: *** [download-images] Error 255
BioGeek 02:03, 27 March 2008 (CET)
Do you still have the problem?
Dolfje 20:54, 9 April 2008 (CEST)
I tested this today (uImage-2.6.24+svnr4301-r4251-r5-om-gta01.bin) on hardy. Qemu doesn't compile with gcc4 you need:
sudo aptitude install gcc-3.4
After the init process started, became the emulation extremely slow. It takes more than 15 minutes
to boot the GUI on 2GHz CPU and you have to klick & hold the mouse several seconds to see
any visual response. It would be great if there was a easy way to get a shell,
i.e. why the serial port (ctrl+shift-3) doesn't have a getty & co attached?
Can anybody confirm this? --Captn 12:29, 18 April 2008 (CEST)
Hi, just to tell that the Install ipkg package part is not effective since there is no room to install the .ipk on the QEmu (say ROM image) device.
Have any idea on how to get over it or to enable the automatic memory allocation on QEmu if allowed?
--VdeGrandpré 17:37, 12 mai 2008 (EST)
I have compiled the Qemu source just fine on Ubuntu Hardy, but when the emulator started it showed up with an unusual QT theme. After the nice picture with the two boots there appeared a message line "No network" in the middle of the screen and 4 icons (cellphone, Q, star and lock). The buttons below the icons are unresponsive. They show a change in the background color when I click them with the mouse, but then nothing happens. Even if I press them for several seconds as noted above. Has the Openmoko theme been accidentally replaced by a non-working QT theme or did I configure something wrong on my end?
--Xaos 15:06, July 7th, 2008 (CST)
Thomas, I got the same thing when I tried. On the #openmoko IRC channel, lindi and I (with help) got this to work:
1. After building qemu with "make qemu", close the emulator and:
2. modify the file: build/qemu/openmoko/env as follows (you may need to adjust these values as time goes by for different images):
# rootfs_wildcard="Open?oko-openmoko-*image*-om-gta01.rootfs.jffs2" rootfs_wildcard="Openmoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080706-om-gta01.rootfs.jffs2" #download_dir="http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/" download_dir="http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/200807/20080706/"
3. Download the above .jffs2 file (build the URL with the download_dir and the rootfs_wildcard values) to images/openmoko/
4. run "make flash-qemu-official"
5. run "make run-qemu-snapshot" or "make run-qemu"
--schafdog 15:10, July 1th 2008 (CST)
Built succesfully on a Fedora Linux 9. Trying to run on the linux box but with the XServer on OS X. It doesn't react to any keypress. Now tried it locally. The keypress works, but stil having some issues to get openmoko up.
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, it was also necessary to "apt-get install libgnutls-dev". --Newkirk 20:37, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
When I try to download .jffs2 file, it's write "404. File is not found"
This is not look like as Openmoko on screens:
Robotex 02:43, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


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In most courses studied at Harvard Business schools, students are provided with a case study. Major HBR cases concerns on a whole industry, a whole organization or some part of organization; profitable or non-profitable organizations. Student's role is to analyze the case and diagnose the situation, identify the problem and then give appropriate recommendations and steps to be taken.
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Case study method guide is provided to students which determine the aspects of problem needed to be considered while analyzing a case study. It is very important to have a thorough reading and understanding of guidelines provided. However, poor guide reading will lead to misunderstanding of case and failure of analyses. It is recommended to read guidelines before and after reading the case to understand what is asked and how the questions are to be answered. Therefore, in-depth understanding f case guidelines is very important.
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When having a fast reading, following points should be noted:
- Nature of organization
- Nature if industry in which organization operates.
- External environment that is effecting organization
- Problems being faced by management
- Identification of communication strategies.
- Any relevant strategy that can be added.
- Control and out-of-control situations.
When reading the case for second time, following points should be considered:
- Decisions needed to be made and the responsible Person to make decision.
- Objectives of the organization and key players in this case.
- The compatibility of objectives. if not, their reconciliations and necessary redefinition.
- Sources and constraints of organization from meeting its objectives.
After reading the case and guidelines thoroughly, reader should go forward and start the analyses of the case.
STEP 3: Doing The Case Analysis Of Challenging Environment:
To make an appropriate case analyses, firstly, reader should mark the important problems that are happening in the organization. There may be multiple problems that can be faced by any organization. Secondly, after identifying problems in the company, identify the most concerned and important problem that needed to be focused.
Firstly, the introduction is written. After having a clear idea of what is defined in the case, we deliver it to the reader. It is better to start the introduction from any historical or social context. The challenging diagnosis for Challenging Environment and the management of information is needed to be provided. However, introduction should not be longer than 6-7 lines in a paragraph. As the most important objective is to convey the most important message for to the reader.
After introduction, problem statement is defined. In the problem statement, the company's most important problem and constraints to solve these problems should be define clearly. However, the problem should be concisely define in no more than a paragraph. After defining the problems and constraints, analysis of the case study is begin.
STEP 4: SWOT Analysis of the Challenging Environment HBR Case Solution:
SWOT analysis helps the business to identify its strengths and weaknesses, as well as understanding of opportunity that can be availed and the threat that the company is facing. SWOT for Challenging Environment is a powerful tool of analysis as it provide a thought to uncover and exploit the opportunities that can be used to increase and enhance company's operations. In addition, it also identifies the weaknesses of the organization that will help to be eliminated and manage the threats that would catch the attention of the management.
This strategy helps the company to make any strategy that would differentiate the company from competitors, so that the organization can compete successfully in the industry. The strengths and weaknesses are obtained from internal organization. Whereas, the opportunities and threats are generally related from external environment of organization. Moreover, it is also called Internal-External Analysis.
In the strengths, management should identify the following points exists in the organization:
- Advantages of the organization
- Activities of the company better than competitors.
- Unique resources and low cost resources company have.
- Activities and resources market sees as the company's strength.
- Unique selling proposition of the company.
- Improvement that could be done.
- Activities that can be avoided for Challenging Environment.
- Activities that can be determined as your weakness in the market.
- Factors that can reduce the sales.
- Competitor's activities that can be seen as your weakness.
- Good opportunities that can be spotted.
- Interesting trends of industry.
- Opportunities for Challenging Environment can be obtained from things such as:
- Change in technology and market strategies
- Government policy changes that is related to the company's field
- Changes in social patterns and lifestyles.
- Local events.
Following points can be identified as a threat to company:
- Company's facing obstacles.
- Activities of competitors.
- Product and services quality standards
- Threat from changing technologies
- Financial/cash flow problems
- Weakness that threaten the business.
Following points should be considered when applying SWOT to the analysis:
- Precise and verifiable phrases should be sued.
- Prioritize the points under each head, so that management can identify which step has to be taken first.
- Apply the analyses at proposed level. Clear yourself first that on what basis you have to apply SWOT matrix.
- Make sure that points identified should carry itself with strategy formulation process.
- Use particular terms (like USP, Core Competencies Analyses etc.) to get a comprehensive picture of analyses.
STEP 5: PESTEL/ PEST Analysis of Challenging Environment Case Solution:
Pest analyses is a widely used tool to analyze the Political, Economic, Socio-cultural, Technological, Environmental and legal situations which can provide great and new opportunities to the company as well as these factors can also threat the company, to be dangerous in future.
Pest analysis is very important and informative. It is used for the purpose of identifying business opportunities and advance threat warning. Moreover, it also helps to the extent to which change is useful for the company and also guide the direction for the change. In addition, it also helps to avoid activities and actions that will be harmful for the company in future, including projects and strategies.
To analyze the business objective and its opportunities and threats, following steps should be followed:
- Brainstorm and assumption the changes that should be made to organization. Answer the necessary questions that are related to specific needs of organization
- Analyze the opportunities that would be happen due to the change.
- Analyze the threats and issues that would be caused due to change.
- Perform cost benefit analyses and take the appropriate action.
- Next political elections and changes that will happen in the country due to these elections
- Strong and powerful political person, his point of view on business policies and their effect on the organization.
- Strength of property rights and law rules. And its ratio with corruption and organized crimes. Changes in these situation and its effects.
- Change in Legislation and taxation effects on the company
- Trend of regulations and deregulations. Effects of change in business regulations
- Timescale of legislative change.
- Other political factors likely to change for Challenging Environment.
- Position and current economy trend i.e. growing, stagnant or declining.
- Exchange rates fluctuations and its relation with company.
- Change in Level of customer's disposable income and its effect.
- Fluctuation in unemployment rate and its effect on hiring of skilled employees
- Access to credit and loans. And its effects on company
- Effect of globalization on economic environment
- Considerations on other economic factors
- Change in population growth rate and age factors, and its impacts on organization.
- Effect on organization due to Change in attitudes and generational shifts.
- Standards of health, education and social mobility levels. Its changes and effects on company.
- Employment patterns, job market trend and attitude towards work according to different age groups.
- Social attitudes and social trends, change in socio culture an dits effects.
- Religious believers and life styles and its effects on organization
- Other socio culture factors and its impacts.
- Any new technology that company is using
- Any new technology in market that could affect the work, organization or industry
- Access of competitors to the new technologies and its impact on their product development/better services.
- Research areas of government and education institutes in which the company can make any efforts
- Changes in infra-structure and its effects on work flow
- Existing technology that can facilitate the company
- Other technological factors and their impacts on company and industry
These headings and analyses would help the company to consider these factors and make a "big picture" of company's characteristics. This will help the manager to take the decision and drawing conclusion about the forces that would create a big impact on company and its resources.
STEP 6: Porter's Five Forces/ Strategic Analysis Of The Challenging Environment Case Study:
To analyze the structure of a company and its corporate strategy, Porter's five forces model is used. In this model, five forces have been identified which play an important part in shaping the market and industry. These forces are used to measure competition intensity and profitability of an industry and market.
These forces refers to micro environment and the company ability to serve its customers and make a profit. These five forces includes three forces from horizontal competition and two forces from vertical competition. The five forces are discussed below:
as the industry have high profits, many new entrants will try to enter into the market. However, the new entrants will eventually cause decrease in overall industry profits. Therefore, it is necessary to block the new entrants in the industry. following factors is describing the level of threat to new entrants:
- Barriers to entry that includes copy rights and patents.
- High capital requirement
- Government restricted policies
- Switching cost
- Access to suppliers and distributions
- Customer loyalty to established brands.
this describes the threat to company. If the goods and services are not up to the standard, consumers can use substitutes and alternatives that do not need any extra effort and do not make a major difference. For example, using Aquafina in substitution of tap water, Pepsi in alternative of Coca Cola. The potential factors that made customer shift to substitutes are as follows:
- Price performance of substitute
- Switching costs of buyer
- Products substitute available in the market
- Reduction of quality
- Close substitution are available
the lesser money and resources are required to enter into any industry, the higher there will be new competitors and be an effective competitor. It will also weaken the company's position. Following are the potential factors that will influence the company's competition:
- Competitive advantage
- Continuous innovation
- Sustainable position in competitive advantage
- Level of advertising
- Competitive strategy
it deals with the ability of customers to take down the prices. It mainly consists the importance of a customer and the level of cost if a customer will switch from one product to another. The buyer power is high if there are too many alternatives available. And the buyer power is low if there are lesser options of alternatives and switching. Following factors will influence the buying power of customers:
- Bargaining leverage
- Switching cost of a buyer
- Buyer price sensitivity
- Competitive advantage of company's product
this refers to the supplier's ability of increasing and decreasing prices. If there are few alternatives o supplier available, this will threat the company and it would have to purchase its raw material in supplier's terms. However, if there are many suppliers alternative, suppliers have low bargaining power and company do not have to face high switching cost. The potential factors that effects bargaining power of suppliers are the following:
- Input differentiation
- Impact of cost on differentiation
- Strength of distribution centers
- Input substitute's availability.
STEP 7: Generating Alternatives For Challenging Environment Case Solution:
After completing the analyses of the company, its opportunities and threats, it is important to generate a solution of the problem and the alternatives a company can apply in order to solve its problems. To generate the alternative of problem, following things must to be kept in mind:
- Realistic solution should be identified that can be operated in the company, with all its constraints and opportunities.
- as the problem and its solution cannot occur at the same time, it should be described as mutually exclusive
- it is not possible for a company to not to take any action, therefore, the alternative of doing nothing is not viable.
- Student should provide more than one decent solution. Providing two undesirable alternatives to make the other one attractive is not acceptable.
Once the alternatives have been generated, student should evaluate the options and select the appropriate and viable solution for the company.
STEP 8: Selection Of Alternatives For Challenging Environment Case Solution:
It is very important to select the alternatives and then evaluate the best one as the company have limited choices and constraints. Therefore to select the best alternative, there are many factors that is needed to be kept in mind. The criteria's on which business decisions are to be selected areas under:
- Improve profitability
- Increase sales, market shares, return on investments
- Customer satisfaction
- Brand image
- Corporate mission, vision and strategy
- Resources and capabilities
Alternatives should be measures that which alternative will perform better than other one and the valid reasons. In addition, alternatives should be related to the problem statements and issues described in the case study.
STEP 9: Evaluation Of Alternatives For Challenging Environment Case Solution:
If the selected alternative is fulfilling the above criteria, the decision should be taken straightforwardly. Best alternative should be selected must be the best when evaluating it on the decision criteria. Another method used to evaluate the alternatives are the list of pros and cons of each alternative and one who has more pros than cons and can be workable under organizational constraints.
STEP 10: Recommendations For Challenging Environment Case Study (Solution):
There should be only one recommendation to enhance the company's operations and its growth or solving its problems. The decision that is being taken should be justified and viable for solving the problems.


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If they would get Eminem to do this, I wouldn't mind paying $25 dollars a min to talk to him.
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Kraft says Patriots made better offer to Welker
PHOENIX — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft delivered several messages Monday at the NFL meetings.
He claimed his team's contract offer to Wes Welker was better than what the receiver got in Denver. Kraft said Welker's agent, David Dunn, "misrepresented" Welker's market value.
And Kraft made it clear who is boss in New England.
When asked about Patriots quarterback Tom Brady being upset that Welker left after Brady reworked his own contract, Kraft said: "I don't answer to Tom Brady. He's an important member of the team and we chatted."
"He did what he did to put us in the best position to build a team around him and win games," Kraft added. "But he has never, as it has been reported that he, or people close to him, have made certain comments, but none of that is true. I've spoken with him directly. Whoever is creating that impression is mistaken.
"He has never put a demand" on the Patriots.
Welker got a two-year, $12 million deal with the Broncos. Kraft said Welker could have received $8 million in the first year of a two-year contract with New England worth $10 million overall, as opposed to $6 million he gets in Denver.
"And there is no guarantee that he plays the second year there," Kraft added.
Dunn did not immediately respond to messages from The Associated Press for comment.
The Patriots paid the two-time All-Pro receiver $9.55 million under the franchise tag in 2012 after Welker felt he was being lowballed on a new deal and could not reach agreement on a long-term contract. He then had his fifth season with at least 111 catches, making 118 receptions for 1,354 yards and six touchdowns.
New England didn't tag Welker again, balking at paying the game's best slot receiver the required 20 percent raise for a second-time franchise player.
Now, he's a Bronco, going from being Brady's favorite target to catching passes from Peyton Manning. Not a bad neighborhood to move to.
But Kraft was adamant Monday that he wanted Welker to remain in New England.
"We usually don't talk about contracts, but I'd like to clear up what I think is some misconception about the Wes situation," Kraft said.
"Everyone in our organization wanted Wes Welker back. Anyone who doubts that, or thinks we weren't serious, just doesn't get it. I really wanted Wes to be with us through the rest of his career, but it takes two sides to do a deal."
When he joined the Broncos last week, Welker refused to criticize the Patriots, although he made it clear he felt his time in New England had come to a close.
"I'd definitely like to thank New England for the six years there, all the trust and everything they put in me," Welker said. "As free agency kind of went on, I kind of got the feeling that it was time to start looking for other opportunities. Denver, I felt, would be a great fit for me."


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Eighteen months ago, when AT&T tried to acquire T-Mobile, Ma Bell argued that only it could save the struggling number four carrier. As Ars pointed out at the time, AT&T's own documents pounded T-Mobile for facing "substantial commercial and spectrum-related challenges," losing customers "for nearly two years," and having "no clear path to LTE."
The conventional wisdom among industry analysts was that Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent company in Germany, has been looking to unload its American subsidiary for about a decade either through an initial public offering (IPO), or a direct sale. Telekom needs the money as it still has about €40 billion ($51 billion) in corporate debt and wants to shore up operations in its home markets in Europe.
But with the new announced merger with MetroPCS, analysts say that Deutsche Telekom has given itself a much better path to higher profits in the United States one way or the other.
The specifics of the deal are that MetroPCS will declare a 1-for-2 reverse split, thereby cutting the existing level of stock in half. MetroPCS—the first company in America to launch LTE—will also pay $1.5 billion to its shareholders and acquire all of T-Mobile's stock. However, Deutsche Telekom will still retain 74 percent ownership in the new company.
In other words, the deal has injected the new company (which will still be called T-Mobile) with viability, but provides Telekom with a chance to make a nice profit should the company want to sell its large stake.
"A complete exit is probably an overstatement, but this gives [Deutsche Telekom] a relatively simple mechanism for dialing back their exposure in the US market," Craig Moffett, an analyst with Bernstein Research, told Ars.
"They've made no secret of the fact that they've been willing to sell it, they've talked about IPOing it. You have to take this at face value that this is not an exit from the US market. It is an incremental investment in a stronger US asset, albeit one that has a built-in exit door."
T-Mobile, bigger and badder than ever before
Of course now, in late 2012, T-Mobile is in a much more attractive position than it was just a year ago. In the aftermath of the collapsed deal last year, AT&T paid $3 billion cash plus some spectrum rights to T-Mobile, no doubt a significant amount went towards the latter's LTE upgrade plan.
"So [T-Mobile is] actually in much better shape now than it was before, with an LTE strategy underway and a better spectrum position," Jan Dawson, a telecom analyst, told Ars. "The one thing it still faced was a lack of scale and the threat from smaller regional prepaid players, who were increasingly targeting the national value market, which is T-Mobile's bread and butter."
He added that while there is no longer the same level of urgency to extricate itself from the American market, if the new company does well as a publicly traded company, then Telekom could sell part or all of that off.
"Overall, Telekom needs money to invest in its domestic and slower-growing businesses, so I would expect it to try to extract some value through selling part of its stake over the next few years, but I don't see this purely as an exit strategy," he said. "I see it more as a way to make T-Mobile successful, which could pay off in a couple of different ways for Deutsche Telekom."
Telekom faces much more competition in its home country of Germany, where there are other big players, like Vodafone, O2 (Telefonica), and E-Plus to content with, not to mention the myriad of prepaid MVNO providers. In public statements, the company called its most recent quarterly drop in German mobile revenues "unsatisfactory," and across all of its properties in Europe, posted a revenue drop of 5.9 percent.
Telekom's exit or re-entry
Still, analysts seem to think that such an exit is not going to come anytime soon.
"I have a hard time believing that [a Telekom exit is imminent] because there's too much at stake," Brian Blau, a Gartner Research analyst said. "33 million customers is a nice customer base. Now they stand a chance at becoming number three if they can execute—then you have to think that's a viable business."
Indeed, it will take some time for the new company to fully transition to a pure LTE GSM setup.
"I think having a publicly traded equity allows Deutsche Telekom...an exit strategy should they choose to take one, but it certainly seems like they're re-committing to the US with this transaction," said Christopher King, an analyst with Stifel, Nicolaus. "It would be challenging for the parent to sell during a three to five year network integration and upgrade cycle."


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Focus Moment
Focus Moments are short video segments highlighting Gwinnett County Public Schools news and events, reflecting GCPS' ongoing commitment to academic excellence. Watch informative feature stories and learn why GCPS continues to be the school system of choice.
Black History Month 2021 Selected Episode
GCPS celebrates Black History Month.
Produced March 2021
- New Teacher Orientation 2021
- Back to School with Cafe Gwinnett
- Summer Enrichment + Acceleration
- Empty Stocking Fund
- Berkmar Signing Day
- Rebecca Carlisle State TOTY Finalist 2021
- Seckinger HS Topping-Out Ceremony
- School of the Arts (SOTA) Welcome Event
- Gwinnett County STAR Student and Teacher Surprise
- Mason ES Bell Choir
- CTE Student of the Year
- Senator Warnock and Representative Bourdeaux Visit GCPS
- Celebrating School Social Workers
- Gwinnett County School Bus Camera Safety Program 2015
- Black History Month 2021
- Jones MS Tackles Misinformation
- Teacher Signing Day
- History Has Its Eyes On Us
- GASSP MS Principal of the Year 2021
- Counselor of the Year Recognition 2021
- Media Specialist and Media Clerk of the Year 2021
- Georgia Distinguished School Administrator 2021
- Career Connections
- Play 2 Learn at Knight ES
- Grayson Art Teacher Innovates
- The Future Is Bright For Berkmar
- Oakland Meadow's New Playground
- A Walk with Spot
- Freddie Falcon Back-to-School Bash
- Parent Engagement
- Crashing B.B. Harris ES
- First Day of School 2020


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System Requirements
Platform Compatibility
Windows®-based PC:
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- Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
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Package Contents
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Technical Specifications
- Mouse Dimensions (height x width x depth): 2.32 in (59 mm) x 3.35 in (85 mm) x 0.71 in (18 mm)
- Mouse Weight (including battery): 2.47 oz (70 g)
- Sensor technology: Laser-grade tracking or Advanced Optical Tracking
- Sensor Resolution: 1000
- Gestures < One-finger >
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- Number of buttons: 1
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- Battery life: 10-day battery life maximum*
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Editorial: Back tax-free bonds to finance crucial infrastructure in Mass.
for release Saturday, June 23
Rising mortgage rates and a national real estate slump haven't made the housing affordability crisis here in Massachusetts any less acute. With median new home prices still over $400,000 in greater Boston, too many families are still locked out of the housing market. We need more housing built, of all kinds, if we are to hold on to young workers and the businesses that depend on them.
What the real estate slump has done is make it harder to get financing to build the new housing Massachusetts needs. That's especially true of ``smart growth'' and urban redevelopment projects that require major investments in infrastructure before the first home can be built. Large projects need water and sewer, roads, parking garages and other public amenities, but municipalities can't afford those investments and private financing is increasingly hard to find for the initial phase of these projects.
One promising option is to allow developers, with the consent of local officials, to create a ``special assessment district,'' which could issue tax-free bonds to raise money. Those bonds would be paid off through charges levied on those who buy or lease the finished project.
This idea was initially incorporated into the economic development package enacted into law a year ago, but it was vetoed by Gov. Romney. The House overrode the veto, but the Senate failed to take it up. A new version, sponsored by state Sen. Richard Moore, D-Uxbridge, and known as Chapter 40T, strengthens local control over the districts and removes earlier language granting them eminent domain powers.
The measure is more important now than a year ago. At a State House hearing last week, proponents featured two projects - in downtown Worcester and small-town Upton - that have strong local support and would help provide the housing Massachusetts desperately needs. Their backers say special assessment financing could mean the difference between moving valuable projects like theirs forward or seeing them stalled by the lack of initial financing.
Legislators should enact Moore's bill before a national real estate slump derails the creation of new housing critical to Massachusetts families and the state's economic future.


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Hearing Aids
Basic digital hearing aids generally require the wearer to make some manual adjustments in certain listening environments such as turning a volume control up or down, or pushing a button to change listening programs. In contrast, a premium or more advanced hearing aid responds automatically to changes in the listener's environment, making changes based on the signals being detected by the hearing aid. The hearing aid wearer is not required to make any manual changes. As the level of the technology increases in hearing aids, so do the availability of advanced features.
Styles of Hearing Aids
Hearing aids are available in many different sizes and styles thanks to advancements in digital technology and miniaturization of the internal components. Many of today's hearing aids are considered sleek, compact, and innovative - offering solutions to a wide range of hearing aid wearers.
Various hearing aid styles we offer:
- In-The-Ear
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Phonak's goal is to improve the quality of life of people with hearing loss. Phonak is the innovative force in hearing acoustics. With our creative solutions, we strive to overcome technological limitations - so that all people are able to hear, understand and fully enjoy life's rich landscapes of sound.
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At Widex, we combine years of understanding with a natural curiosity in finding solutions to individual hearing loss. Our uncompromising approach to innovation has led to such advances as the world's first fully digital in-the-ear hearing aid, as well as our own revolutionary wireless technology.


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BrightScope published its list of the top 20 exchange-traded funds based on their distribution in 401(k) plans on Tuesday.
Brooks Herman, head of data and research at BrightScope, said ETFs were becoming more common in retirement plans' fund lineups.
"ETFs, in terms of their distribution in 401(k) plans, have increased in prevalence over the past couple of years as plan sponsors begin to better understand the benefits of including them on plan menus," Herman said in a statement. "The presumed risks of ETFs have been moderated, and they're now perceived as more transparent than many other instruments focused on long-term returns."
Vanguard and iShares dominated the top 20 funds. Half of the funds on the list are from iShares, and seven are from Vanguard.
A dozen funds are new to the list, displacing holdouts like Vanguard Small Cap (VB), iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM), Vanguard Growth (VUG), iShares MSCI EAFE Index (EFA), Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond (BIV), Ultra QQQ ProShares (QLD), iShares Russell 2000 Growth Index (IWO), iShares Russell 2000 Value Index (IWN), iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury (IEF), iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (SHY), Vanguard Mid-Cap (VO) and Vanguard Small-Cap Value (VBR).
20. iShares S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index (IJH)*
19. iPath Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Index Total Return (DJP)*
18. Vanguard REIT Index (VNQ)*
17. iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (TIP)*
* Funds are new to BrightScope's top 20 list.
16. iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value Index (IWS)
15. Vanguard S&P 500 (VOO)*
14. SPDR Gold Shares (GLD)
13. iShares iBoxx $ Investment-Grade Corporate Bond (LQD)*
* Funds are new to BrightScope's top 20 list.
12. Vanguard Value (VTV)*


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Early users of Windows 8's built-in Internet Explorer may find themselves at risk of exploitation via the Flash plugin, as the version included with Windows 8 is out of date. Adobe patched Flash on August 21 to resolve known security flaws, but the patch can't be applied to Internet Explorer 10.
Internet Explorer 10 bundles Adobe Flash, with Microsoft taking on responsibility for shipping updates to the integrated plugin. One repercussion of this arrangement is that Adobe's patches and autoupdate mechanism can't be used; they can update the standalone version used by Firefox, but not the embedded version in Internet Explorer. The same is true of Chrome; it includes an embedded version of Flash, and the only way to update that is with a Chrome update. Adobe's updater can't touch it.
There has been some chatter on Twitter about this issue since Adobe shipped its most recent patch. Ed Bott at ZDNet asked Microsoft about the issue, and was told:
We will update Flash in Windows 8 via Windows Update as needed. The current version of Flash in the Windows 8 RTM build does not have the latest fix, but we will have a security update coming through Windows Update in the GA timeframe.
"GA" means general availability; it refers to the October 26th date when Windows 8 will go on sale through retail channels. There is a contradiction implicit in this statement; Flash in Windows 8 needs an update now, so plainly Microsoft is not updating it "as needed."
There is a broader underlying issue here. Microsoft's policy is, in general, to release software patches, including Internet Explorer patches, on the second Tuesday of each month. Adobe's is also to release them on Tuesdays—but the third or fourth Tuesday.
If these policies are retained, then there will be a systematic vulnerability window. Microsoft will patch Internet Explorer, and then a week or two later, Adobe will reveal a raft of new Flash security flaws when it patches Flash. Windows users will then have to wait several weeks for Microsoft's next update.
This is plainly not a desirable state of affairs, and we feel it must surely be something that Microsoft and Adobe have considered and addressed somehow. However, the company offered us no comment and no explanation of what the update policy will actually be. Delaying Internet Explorer patches so that they are synchronized with Adobe's releases, or bringing forward Adobe's Patch Tuesday so it is synchronized with Microsoft's, would both be viable options.
Whatever option the companies pick, the lack of policy statement is awkward. Enterprises in particular plan for and around Patch Tuesday; providing predictability to its patching schedule for enterprise users is precisely why Microsoft has a Patch Tuesday in the first place. If the nature of Patch Tuesday is going to change—as it surely must, to avoid regular periods of vulnerability to known flaws—then enterprise customers need to be told.
And given that those same enterprise users have access to Windows 8 already and can be deploying and using it today, waiting for GA to provide a fix is unacceptable. Windows 8 may not be released to everyone just yet, but it has been released to some customers, and that means it needs to be supported now.


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